A lot of Obsidian users write custom jobs in Java and leverage their existing codebase to performs things like file archive or file transfer right inside the job. While it’s great to reuse that existing code you have, sometimes users end up implementing the same logic in multiple jobs, which isn’t ideal, since it means … Read more
When we began development on Obsidian Scheduler, one of its key objectives was transparency. Quoting my own post, transparent means letting us know what is going on. We want to have available to us information such as when was the job scheduled to run, when did it start, when did it complete, which host ran … Read more
In this post I’m going to cover how to do job chaining in Quartz versus Obsidian Scheduler. Both are Java job schedulers, but they have different approaches so I thought I’d highlight them here and give some guidance to users using both options. It’s very common when using a job scheduler to need to chain … Read more
Getting your program code to the point that it satisfies the functional requirements provided is a milestone for developers, one that hopefully brings satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment. If that code must be executed on a schedule perhaps for multiple uses with custom schedules and configurable parameters, this can mean a whole new set … Read more
Job scheduling is used on many software projects to enable both internal jobs and third-party integration. Clustering can provide a huge boost to reliability by providing fail-over and load-sharing. I believe that clustering should be implemented for reliability on just about all software projects, so I’ve decided to outline how to go about doing that … Read more
At Carfey Software, we love our flagship product, Obsidian Scheduler. We believe that Obsidian is the best choice for most scheduling needs. Why? Because Obsidian is carefully designed to meet both simple and complex requirements. We think it stacks up well whether you are struggling with an existing scheduler or investigating if you should once … Read more
Today, software developers are faced with a great abundance of options when choosing how to design and implement systems. We are constantly bombarded with choice and are used to dealing with buzzwords like NoSQL, the cloud, REST, Map-Reduce and so on. However, developers in charge of designing systems can be easily seduced into incorporating technologies … Read more
When dealing with data sets retrieved from a database, if we want them ordered, we usually will want to order them right in the SQL, rather than order them after retrieval. Our database will typically be more efficient due to available processing power, potential use of available indexes and overall algorithm efficiency in modern RDBMSes. … Read more
This week, we’ll take a break from higher level problems and technology posts to deal with just a little code problem that a lot of us have probably faced. It’s nothing fancy or too hard, but it may save one of you 15 minutes someday, and occasionally it’s nice to get back to basics. So … Read more
We’ve completed an incremental release for Obsidian Scheduler. Version 1.3 is now available here. Some of the highlights: Sent notifications view Free groovy job for reflectively calling existing code – New jobs without builds! Annotation for class/method of job Bug fix on LogCleanupJob Implementation details can always be found on our wiki.